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Fried Sprats

From The household gas cookery book, 1900

Serves 1

Time to fry: two or three minutes.

Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The household gas cookery book (1900) by Helen Edden, page 34. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Clean the sprats, dry them well, draw them at the gills, dredge them with flour, and run a skewer through the heads of about a dozen. Fry them on the skewer in plenty of hot fat

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